MSE 203 Introduction to Thermodynamics

2017-2018 FALL

Instructor: Tufan Güngören

  • Office: N-C10
  • E-mail: tufan@cankaya.edu.tr
 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is a three credit course emphasizing basic definitions of thermodynamics, extensive and intensive properties, concepts of state, the state of an ideal gas, the behaviors of gases, the P-V-T relationship, thermodynamics equilibrium, internal energy and the first law of thermodynamics, processes, the relationship between the heat and work, heat capacity, enthalpy concept, thermochemistry, the second law of thermodynamics, entropy concept, quantification of irreversibility, the combine statement of the first and the second law of thermodynamics, definition of the entropy, the Helmholtz free energy, the Gibbs free energy, auxiliary functions, Maxwell equations, the third law of thermodynamics, phase equilibrium in one component system.  

SCHEDULE

Lecture:           

Tuesday,  13:20-15:10 (2 hrs)
Thursday,  11:20-13:10 (2 hrs)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Check the course website, http://mse203.cankaya.edu.tr/ frequently for announcements, lecture notes, homework assignments, etc.

TEXTBOOK

Gaskell, D. R., Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials, 3rd Edition, Taylor & Francis Publishers, New York,1995, 4th edition 2003.

REFERENCE BOOKS

  1. Y. Austin Chang and W. Alan Oates, Materials Thermodynamics, Wiley, 2010.
  2. Hae-Geon Lee, Chemical Thermodynamics for Metals and Materials, Imperial College Press, 1999.

  COURSE GRADING

 Midterm I

25 %

Midterm II

25 %

Quizes and/or Homework Assignments

10 %

Final Examination

40 %

TOTAL

100 %*

*Minimum of 70 % attendance in class is mandatory.